Alacritty Alternatives

Alacritty is described as 'Blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL for rendering to be the fastest terminal emulator available. Alacritty is available on GitHub in source form' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Alacritty for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Android apps. The best Alacritty alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Alacritty are Tabby, Termux, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. Terminator icon
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    Terminator enables the user to run and manage multiple terminal emulators side-by-side in the same window. The main focus is arranging terminals in a grid. (Tabs is the most common default method, which Terminator also supports.

    111 Terminator alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNOME
     
  2. GNOME Terminal icon
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    GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.

    86 GNOME Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GNOME
     
  3. Tess icon
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    Tess is a terminal emulator. It lets you have a full access to your computer, use command line based programs and many more.

    76 Tess alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Hyper icon
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    Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian.

    113 Hyper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  5. Yakuake icon
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    Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again.

    56 Yakuake alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
    • Flathub
     
  6. Termora icon
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    Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  7. WezTerm icon
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    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    126 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Because it bundles libssh so that I can have a fast terminal emular on wsl, instead of using wsl.exe

    • WezTerm is Free and Open SourceAlacritty is also Free and Open Source
  8. ConnectBot icon
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    ConnectBot is a Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Its ultimate goal is to create a secure connection through which you can use a shell on a remote machine and transfer files back and forth to your phone.

    57 ConnectBot alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. foot icon
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    Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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